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Shield Volcanoes

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... 1. Plate Tectonics - The surface of the earth is constantly changing due to ________________________ and ___________________ and ________________________ . 2. Volcanoes - Earthquakes and volcanoes can occur anywhere on the surface of the earth, including underwater, but they are more common at _____ ...
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Waves and Plate tectonics
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... which can be a single opening, a cluster of openings, or a long crack, It forms deep within the earth, generally within the upper part of the mantle; one of the layers of the earth’s crust. High temperatures and pressures are needed to form magma. The solid mantle or crustal rock must be melted unde ...
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... Cinder Cone Volcanoes • They are the most common type, yet are the smallest type as well • Have the steepest sides of the three types, and the largest summit craters • Responsible for 648 / 1,511 of known eruptions over the past 10,000 years [42.9%] ...
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... the simplest type of volcano. They are built from particles and blobs of congealed lava ejected from a single vent. As the gas-charged lava is blown violently into the air, it breaks into small fragments that solidify and fall as cinders around the vent to form a circular or oval cone. These are the ...
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DID YOU KNOW? www.geolsoc.org.uk/volcanoes
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... Most volcanoes occur along or near the margins of tectonic plates, where plates move away from each other or collide. At divergent plate boundaries, oceanic plates move away cools to form new crust. That means most volcanic activity occurs under the sea. Where there is a lot of activity from each ot ...
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Volcanoes ppt

... boundaries where oceanic plates sink beneath other plates. • Volcanoes are also common along tectonic boundaries where plates pull apart, allowing magma to rise from the mantle. • Occasionally, volcanoes are formed over a hot spot far from a plate boundary. ...
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Volcano



A volcano is a rupture on the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.Earth's volcanoes occur because its crust is broken into 17 major, rigid tectonic plates that float on a hotter, softer layer in its mantle. Therefore, on Earth, volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging. For example, a mid-oceanic ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the crust's interior plates, e.g., in the East African Rift and the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and Rio Grande Rift in North America. This type of volcanism falls under the umbrella of ""plate hypothesis"" volcanism. Volcanism away from plate boundaries has also been explained as mantle plumes. These so-called ""hotspots"", for example Hawaii, are postulated to arise from upwelling diapirs with magma from the core–mantle boundary, 3,000 km deep in the Earth. Volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another.Erupting volcanoes can pose many hazards, not only in the immediate vicinity of the eruption. One such hazard is that volcanic ash can be a threat to aircraft, in particular those with jet engines where ash particles can be melted by the high operating temperature; the melted particles then adhere to the turbine blades and alter their shape, disrupting the operation of the turbine. Large eruptions can affect temperature as ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscure the sun and cool the Earth's lower atmosphere (or troposphere); however, they also absorb heat radiated up from the Earth, thereby warming the upper atmosphere (or stratosphere). Historically, so-called volcanic winters have caused catastrophic famines.
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